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S12.5 DIONYSUS

Dionysus | Greco-Roman statue
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Museum Collection Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
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DESCRIPTION

The god Dionysus stands with an arm resting on the shoulder of a Satyriscus (boy-Satyr). He is portrayed as a nude youth with long hair crowned with a wreath of grapes. The Satyr, wearing a goat-skin cape and holding a shepherd's crock, is perhaps the god's cup-bearer Comus.

ARTICLES

Dionysus, Satyrs, Comus